This thesis presents a complete system of algorithms to obtain a globally consistent surface representation, in the form of a triangle mesh, from a sequence of registered frames taken by a time-ofight (TOF) camera. Surface reconstruction from range images becomes increasingly important in wide elds of applications. The newly developed TOF imaging technology allows acquisition of 3D data in real...

We have developed a general-purpose Monte Carlo simulation code, called penMesh, that combines the accuracy of the radiation transport physics subroutines from PENELOPE and the flexibility of a geometry based on triangle meshes. While the geometric models implemented in most general-purpose codes--such as PENELOPE's quadric geometry--impose some limitations in the shape of the objects that can ...

Synthetic DNA structures for nanotechnological applications have experienced substantial success during the past decades benefiting from Seeman and his coworkers' pioneering work. In the last few years, some new branches have been emerging in this field. This review will summarize some recent progress in the authors' group. Forming crystalline DNA lattices in one, two and even three dimensions ...

The transcription factor STAT5 is constitutively tyrosine phosphorylated and activated after transformation of hematopoietic cells by p210Bcr/Abl. A truncated form of STAT5B (triangle upSTAT5; aa, 1-683) that lacks tyrosine 699 and the transcriptional activation domain was introduced into Ba/F3p210 cells under the control of a tetracycline-inducible promoter. Treatment of these cells with doxyc...

Problem solving is one of the key components of CAPS. In Chicago, police and thousands of neighborhood residents have been trained to respond to local problems using a fivestep process. It involves identifying and prioritizing problems; analyzing them following the “crime triangle”; designing strategies to deal with the chronic character of priority problems; implementing the plan; and evaluati...

Prior approaches to generating diverse plans in domainindependent planning seek out variations on plan structure such as actions or causal links used, or states entered. Measuring such syntactic differences between plans can be misleading because syntactically different plans can be semantically identical. We develop a landmark-based plan distance measure that captures semantic differences betw...

According to Pythagoras Theorem : In a right-angled triangle x2 + y2 = z2 , where, base x, altitude y, and hypotenuse z. the present paper, author states that – is extended form of Theorem.